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  1. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    10: ...ge:JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc w...
    24: ... finally came on [[September 8]], but ended in disaster when Jeanne was shot in the leg and the attack ...
    36: ...which allowed the pants and tunic to be securely fastened together. For this, she was accused of the s...
    40: ...ned, [as] he had burned a saint." Her ashes were cast into the [[Seine]] River.
    43: ...n]] as a [[saint]] on [[May 16]], [[1920]]. Her feast day is the 2nd Sunday in May.
  2. Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
    8: ...ost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise of i...
    12: ...nturies a completely new political and social infrastructure developed across the lands of the former e...
    21: ...ly. From now on, Europe was to be bi-polar, with east and west competing for power and influence in the...
    23: ...Churches]] from the [[Catholic Church]] in the [[East-West Schism|Great Schism]] of 1054, one of the da...
    30: ...an regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation of numerous nativ...
  3. St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
    17: Directly to the east of the church is the elliptical [[Saint Peter's S...
    22: ...60 feet (18 meters) across. It is not simply its vast scale (136.57 meters from from the floor of the c...
    31: ...door in the center is by [[Antonio Averulino]] ([[1455]]), and preserved from the previous basilica.
    89: ... XII]], as well as the altar of [[Sebastian|St Sebastian]]. Even further up is the '''Chapel of the Ble...
    91: ...e entrance (not an original detail). Along the pilasters are niches housing 39 statues of saints who fo...
  4. List of painters (54090 bytes)
    376: *[[Alfred East]] ([[1849]]-[[1913]])
    549: *[[Vlastimil Hofman]] ([[1881]]-[[1970]])
    955: *[[Pisanello]] (ca.[[1395]]-[[1455]])
    979: *[[Maurice Prendergast]] ([[1861]]-[[1924]])
  5. List of popes (77758 bytes)
    29: | <small>Executed by crucifixion upside-down; feast day ([[SS Peter & Paul]]) [[29 June]], ([[Chair o...
    36: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); Feast day [[23 September]]</small>
    43: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[26 April]]</small>
    50: | <small>Martyred; feast day [[23 November]]</small>
    57: | <small>Traditionally martyred (no evidence); feast day [[26 October]]</small>
  6. Banknote (6576 bytes)
    22: ...pansion and end hyperinflation, the new [[Ming Dynasty]] ended paper money, and closed much of Chinese ...
    28: ...made from [[biaxially-oriented polypropylene]] (plastic), and in [[1996]] became the first country to h...
  7. Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
    1: ...gello]], [[Florence]] [[1395]] &ndash; [[Rome]] [[1455]]), better known in the English-speaking world as...
    15: ...parently he spent all the opening years of his monastic life. His first works executed in [[fresco]] we...
    23: ...int the chapel of Nicholas V, and died in Rome in 1455, where he lies buried in the church of S. Maria s...
    31: ...he wept when he painted a [[Crucifixion]]. The [[Last Judgment]] and the [[Annunciation]] were two of t...
    35: ... sections, now in the Uffizi: this is one of his masterpieces. In Orvieto cathedral he painted three tr...
  8. Lorenzo Ghiberti (754 bytes)
    1: ...Lorenzo Ghiberti''' ([[1378]] - [[December 1]], [[1455]]) was an important [[Renaissance]] artist, speci...
  9. Protestant Reformation (26890 bytes)
    20: ...the breakdown of monastic institutions and [[scholasticism]] in late medieval Europe, accentuated by th...
    28: ...[philosophy|philosophical]] foundations of [[scholasticism]], the new [[nominalism]] did not bode well ...
    30: ...orm movements that revolted against medieval scholasticism and the institutions that underpinned it wer...
    32: ... Germany over the [[Johannes Reuchlin|Reuchlin]] (1455-1522) affair, attacked by the elite clergy for hi...
    42: ...nism for centuries: the neo-Platonism of the scholastics and the neo-Aristotelianism of Thomas Aquinas ...
  10. History of the world (21975 bytes)
    12: ... archaeology in the Americas, East Asia and Southeast Asia indicates that agricultural systems using di...
    16: ...entified by archaeology is that of the [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]]. In the Americas, civilizations such as ...
    21: ... metal poor [[Inca]] had metal tipped plows, at least after the conquest of [[Chimor]]. However, very l...
    23: ...illennium BCE]]. The [[Zhou Dynasty]] produced a vast peasant workforce as well as a nobility in charge...
    25: ..., were diffused throughout Europe and the Middle East by the conquests of [[Alexander of Macedon]] in t...
  11. Johann Gutenberg (6119 bytes)
    4: ...pe metal]] alloy and oil-based inks, a mould for casting type accurately, and a new kind of [[printing ...
    9: ...llustrations carved in, was in use in Europe and East Asia long before Gutenberg. The Koreans and Chine...
    14: ...irst mass-produced work, starting on February 23, 1455. Gutenberg was a poor businessman, and made littl...
    19: At the 1455 [[Frankfurt Book Fair]], Gutenberg demonstrated t...
    21: The one copy of the Biblia Sacra dated 1455 went to Paris and was dated by the binder.
  12. List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
    57: *[[Machado de Castro]] (1731 - 1822)
    113: *[[Lorenzo Ghiberti]] (1378 - 1455)
  13. Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
    3: ...lim port of [[Ceuta]], on the [[North Africa]]n coast across the [[Straits of Gibraltar]] from the Iber...
    13: ...vessels encountered the [[Cape Verde]] islands in 1455.
    15: ...nt known to Europeans on the unpromising desert coast of Africa, although the [[Periplus]] of the Carth...
    17: ...t). By [[1460]] the Portuguese had explored the coast of Africa as far as present-day [[Sierra Leone]]...
    19: ...tation suffered as a result, and for most of his last twenty-three years he concentrated on his explora...
  14. Cheyenne, Wyoming (8059 bytes)
    27: north_coord = 41.1455 |
    40: ...ted at 41&deg;8'44" North, 104&deg;48'7" West (41.145548, -104.802042){{GR|1}}.
    44: ...orth-south [[Interstate 25]] intersects with the east-west [[Interstate 80]]. [[Great Lakes Airlines]] ...
    81: ...the United States, took off from Cheyenne on her last flight, April 12, 1996.
    85: ...network of nuclear missile silos throughout southeastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.
  15. Medieval History (23198 bytes)
    10: ...ost. Administrative, educational and military infrastructure quickly vanished, leading to the rise of i...
    14: ...nturies a completely new political and social infrastructure developed across the lands of the former e...
    23: ...ly. From now on, Europe was to be bi-polar, with east and west competing for power and influence in the...
    25: ...Churches]] from the [[Catholic Church]] in the [[East-West Schism|Great Schism]] of [[1054]], one of th...
    32: ...an regions in the [[Baltic]] and [[Finnic]] northeast brought the forced assimilation of numerous nativ...
  16. Britain in the Middle Ages (12239 bytes)
    12: ...s and pacified the land. After this, there was a vast victory banquet, where the participants were seat...
    25: ...a]], exiled from his native Ireland, founded a monastery on the island of [[Iona]] in the Hebrides, and...
    36: The struggle for mastery of [[Scotland]] continued into the next centur...
    38: ... cousin [[Thomas, Earl of Lancaster|Thomas of Lancaster]], at the [[Battle of Boroughbridge]] in 1322, ...
    48: ...eath in [[1460]], his son Edward defeated the Lancastrians the next year in the [[Battle of Towton]], a...

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